Our failure and damage analysis activities
Since the 1960s, CTE has acquired in-depth technical knowledge of the equipment used by the Air Liquide Group worldwide.
Our scope
Investigations are carried out after incidents or accidents to determine their causes.
Our experts carry out these investigations on different types of equipment or accessories using oxygen, hydrogen, medical gases, etc. We can recreate the conditions of the incident or accident to verify the hypotheses of the root cause analysis.
Oxygen failures
We analyse components following failures or incidents related to the use of oxygen.
Oxygen failure investigations
Mechanical or material failures
We analyse gas cylinders, valves, hoses or damaged materials and components.
Mechanical failure investigations
Estimating the residual lifetime of methane steam reformer tubes
The steam reforming of methane is a process used to produce hydrogen. This process requires the use of furnaces operating at very high temperature. For the Air Liquide group, we estimate the residual lifetime of the tubes using creep tests or replica microstructure examinations.
Our tools
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Metallography laboratory
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Optical microscopy room
Our testing activities
CTE offers tests on oxygen safety, cylinder conformity and equipment performance.
Contact us
AIR LIQUIDE Global E&C Solutions France - CTE
Campus Innovation Paris 1
Chemin de la Porte des Loges
78350 LES LOGES EN JOSAS
01 39 07 62 62